The first day of tentative offense and defense was short and bloody, and ended with the arrival of night.

Taishici and Zhou Tai both strictly followed Li Su's final strategic deployment, and acted as if the main force was chasing Zhou Yu downstream overnight and had the strength to seize Zhou Yu, while also seizing troops to block the water camps that had not yet been broken up in the upper reaches.

Moreover, Zhou Tai even fulfilled the details and pretended to be drunk and complained that night, showing all his subordinates his "desire to make contributions".

At the same time, Zhou Tai also urged the soldiers to choose a location with a relatively deep water level and low silt on the south bank of Hulin Port, where the river bank was about twenty miles downstream of Hulin Port, and set up a temporary anchorage camp there.

After all, Zhou Tai wants to monitor and block Huang Gai and not give Huang Gai the opportunity to retreat on the waterway in the future to meet Zhou Yu. He can't let his fleet float on the Yangtze River, right?

Therefore, Zhou Tai also wanted to set up a camp to set up a water village, but his water village could be a little simpler, without having to be fortified, and without considering the issue of being attacked by the enemy. The difference in the degree of solidity between Zhou Tai camp and Huanggai Hulin Port water village is roughly equivalent to the difference between the siege camp and the siege wall of the city guard.

However, although Zhou Tai was ready for everything and performed perfectly, the moment when Li Su was slapped in the face came soon

Li Su himself was in charge of the central army of the fleet. His troops were large in size and had already been dragged into a long snake formation on the Yangtze River. Therefore, on the first day when Taishi Ci and Zhou Tai took over the enemy, Li Su's ship had not arrived in Hulin yet, so there was no problem of "going too far to act".

It was early in the morning of the 22nd that he arrived at Hulin Port. As a result, he prepared for the war for a night and was waiting for Huang Gai to rob the camp and set fire. Zhou Tai came to report to Li Su with dark circles:

Bai waited all night last night, and Huang Gai hurried in Hulin Port without any action at all. Zhou Tai's sailors had to fight for the afternoon war last afternoon and had to add several times the night patrol boats at night. Many of them didn't sleep well, and their energy and morale were a little depressed.

"Have you been cast to the blind man with a charming look? Or is Huang Gai too slow? Or... He also realized that the Flying Fire God Crow could not use this kind of weather, and only a single method of setting fire is left, so there is a suitable wind direction and no attack will be made?

Or maybe... Huang Gai just based on the general understanding of military tactics, thinking that 'when the enemy just came from afar, he was always the most alert and was most careful to rob the camp and set fire. He had to wait a little longer to relax and be careless'?"

While Li Suxiao lost her, she reacted quickly and immediately listed all the possibilities of "Why didn't Huang Gai fall into the trap immediately". Then, she invited Xu Shu and Zhang Song and other staff to brainstorm and hold a meeting to discuss and investigate.

Zhang Song is more good at being a human being. Before he could come up with an idea, he comforted Li Su first: "Sikongxiu wants to blame himself. How can there be anyone in the world who can predict the enemy's movements accurately every day? Huang Gai did not come to rob the camp and set fire to the ship. Maybe he was hesitant and cautious.

Our army continued to conduct the exercises, and the siege of Hulin Port was not slow or slow, and it was not intentionally slow, but it did not ignore casualties in order to quickly take it. The heavy catapult should be deployed and assembled in the land camp, and all the same should be done.

In this way, if you want to attack Huanggai camp by water, you have to prepare for four or five days. If he resists stubbornly and swears to persevere, it is estimated that General Zhou has discovered 10,000 naval troops, plus the land soldiers left by Zhou Yu to Huanggai, it is possible that he will hold on for another three more days."

Zhang Songxian analyzed and reviewed the situations that were still beneficial to Li Sufang, so that everyone realized that there was still time and did not seek to eliminate Huang Gai quickly.

Xu Shu on the other side also felt relieved when he saw Li Su's expression, and no longer felt frustrated because "the enemy did not immediately fall into my plan." He then analyzed it down with Zhang Song's words and said some constructive suggestions:

"Sikong, you have always said before that if Zhou Yu left people to stop the rear and was delayed, he would not fight to defend the water camp. Then the only chance they would like to go back alive is to break through the fire attack.

If this is true, maybe Huang Gai is just waiting for a night when the wind is stronger and the wind is louder, which will facilitate his rapid sailing and cover up the movement of his fleet. It would be best if the rain stopped completely, so that the rocket and other arson weapons will be used as well."

Li Su shook the folding fan and cooled her mood for a while. By the way, she also used the folding fan to signal everyone to focus on the key points, so she was less polite and comforted.

The plum rain has been going on for three or four days, and the first wave of heavy rain is getting smaller and smaller. During the plum rain period, it is not raining every day, and there are already intervals. However, during the interval period, the weather began to get hot again, which made Li Su a little anxious and impatient:

"You are right. I'll summarize the ideas I just sorted out. All the atmosphere that makes us continue to perform smoothly and let Huang Gai firmly try to break through the water. Now let's wait for a strong windy day and give Huang Gai another chance!"

...

There is nothing much to say about the situation in the following few days. Li Sucai would not "take care of the details and sweat all day long" and pay attention to the acting problems and daily operations of the troops.

These are things that the generals ahead should care about.

Zhou Tai's attitude became increasingly "greedy for merit and seeking war". Even on May 25, two days after Huang Gai was surrounded by waterways, Zhou Tai launched a waterway landing battle attempt at Huang Gai's waterside village, that is, he drove the ship directly into the Hulin Waterside Tournament where the gap was broken and landed forcibly.

Of course, this attempt was also repelled by Huang Gai. It was mainly because Li Su's mission to Zhou Tai at the beginning was to monitor, cut off Huang Gai's communication with the outside world, and did not allow Zhou Tai to attack, so he did not leave too much troops for Zhou Tai.

Li Su's main force of the navy, on the surface, has bypassed Huang Gai and rushed towards Zhou Yu, and has now surrounded the Yangtze River surface of the Nanlinggang Water Village downstream.

Moreover, this information was also made public. Even Huang Gai knew that Li Su didn't take him seriously at all. He really saw Li Su's largest five-tooth warship in the Han army, the flagship, sailing through the Hulin area and heading downstream through the river.

Huang Gai's defensive power is much stronger than Li Dian on the North Bank. He attacked Zhou Tai's pure water routes, of course, he still has spare energy. Even Zhu Ling, a general of Cao's army who obeyed Huang Gai, showed some confidence in Luzhao.

On May 26th, on the sixth day after the plum rain began, I finally waited for a completely rainless night. Moreover, this rainless does not mean that the rain has completely fallen, but a feature of the transition from the plum rain season to the dog days of summer

In the hottest summer, the summer is not completely rainy, but it is just a short rainstorm, and it is over. Because the clouds are too small, it is concentrated in a certain location. When the wind blows, the clouds will blow away elsewhere. The rain stops when there was rain, and the place where there was no rain next to it suddenly starts to fall again.

People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang all know a proverb called "Summer rain is separated from the back of a cow". This statement is exaggerated, but it also appropriately describes the characteristics of summer rain in Jiangnan: it is possible that the area between the back of a cow is separated, and the sky corresponding to the left back of the cow is raining, but the right back of the cow is not raining.

Huang Gai waited for this evening, obviously, in this weather, not suddenly there was no rain, but the area of ​​rain clouds became smaller and smaller, from heavy rain that originally covered several counties to light rain that covered several counties. Once the rain clouds blow, at least there will be no rain in Hulingang.

This made Huang Gai, who had been worried about walking on thin ice for several days, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In the evening of that day, Huang Gai gathered Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao together and invited them to drink Zhuangxing wine before sending troops. At the same time, he explained the fighter jets to the two, encouraging their confidence:

"God helps me, and I will fight with the enemy for four days. If Zhou Tai had thought about going forward and surrounded me in the water and land at the beginning, I would probably have to run away now.

But he couldn't hold back his anger. He watched Taishi Ciganing pursue the Grand Governor downstream and besiege the Grand Governor's main port. He was here to monitor me and have no chance to make meritorious.

As a result, I was undecided and wasted part of my useless attempt to attack our Hulin Village alone on the water, which delayed the preparation speed for the overall siege.

Therefore, to defeat Zhou Tai, just tonight, as long as the fire attack breaks through Zhou Tai and makes it a mess, we can retreat without having to cross Huangshan by land. We can directly save our warships and cut Zhou Tai's river-intercepting patrol fleet into two pieces! The entire division retreats!

And as the end of the month approaches, the moon is dark and the wind is high, no more than the previous few days, and the crescent moon is obvious in the second half of the night. Tonight, you can use rockets and fire boats, and the wind is loud enough to cover the sound of warships breaking through the waves. To the dark and wind are high enough to cover the possibility that the fleet will be discovered from afar. If you don’t fight tonight, you will have to abandon the ship. You will follow my efforts, success or failure will be here!"

Obviously, Huang Gai had long been holding onto the idea of ​​"fire attack" in his heart. It was not Li Suhe who was maliciously speculating.

This is not surprising. The bloody battle in which Sun Ce himself died in battle half a year ago. To be honest, Huang Gai lost the most unfairly.

Huang Gai was not present at that time and was assigned by Sun Ce to defend the water defense line from Jiangjin to Hanjin, and to undertake the task of blocking the waterway on the Han River side.

Therefore, Huang Gai was confused and heard that the Wu army on the main battlefield on the Yangtze River was defeated and mostly disappeared. Then the 20,000 naval troops left on the Han River were also blocked in the Han River because of the estuary of Xiakou, the river. Finally, he abandoned the ship and crossed the mountains and fled to the Dabie Mountains before fleeing back.

It’s unjust! He didn’t participate in the defeat in person at all! He was dragged down by his lord and other colleagues!

Huang Gai was also holding his breath. This time when Zhou Yu asked him to cut off the rear, he said, "If necessary, you can abandon the boat and take the land route, and cross a section of Huangshan along the Qiupu River from Hulin to retreat." Huang Gai was a little repulsive.

He hoped that he would have a chance to take advantage of the speed advantage and suddenness one night to break through Zhou Tai and retreat! Not only could he take the boat away, the soldiers would definitely survive more, and they would not have to climb mountains without being tired.

Four months ago, it was so painful to give up the experience of crossing the Dabie Mountains and returning to Lujiang. The troops were not good at climbing mountains and were frightened and frightened. The soldiers who died of marching were all exhausted and died of marching. There were 100 soldiers who died of magnitude, and they even threw away all the ships.

Huang Gai's heart felt that when he thought of climbing Huangshan again, he would climb Huangshan like he did Dabie Mountain, there was a psychological shadow.

Surviving is cowardly.

What's more, Zhou Yu has not been idle these months. Zhou Yu also knows that there are many winds in the southeast of summer, which is suitable for fire attack in the east of Jiangdong, so he has made many optimizations and improvements to the fire attack weapons in advance.

Needless to say, the fire ships and rockets are all used to imitate the appearance structure of the local "Flying Fire God Crow". It mainly imitates the duds shot on the Wu army's warships when they were fighting with the Han army before. They have been beaten up by gunpowder weapons. Thinking of imitating it, this is not considered a cheat.

However, this imitation is tangible and unsightly, and the gunpowder formula cannot be tested. In addition, duds are originally dumb and the gunpowder is dumb because of moisture. Therefore, the samples used for imitation Wu Jun were originally used to be in a state of solid gunpowder.

The craftsmen in Zhou Yu's army fought hard and only figured out the composition of "the gunpowder used by the Han army also contained charcoal saltpeter and sulfur", but they knew nothing about the proportion.

Therefore, with the backward chemistry of this era, as long as Li Su's production process is not leaked, the other party will redirectly imitate by being shot on the battlefield by duds, and in the end, it will not be able to imitate gunpowder with obvious blasting power.

However, this kind of gunpowder must be burned stably and can be used to spray gas to advance. These two points can be achieved. Therefore, although the Wu people cannot get out mines and landmines and cannot siege and blast, they can still create arson weapons and poisonous smoke weapons.

When Zhou Yu left, he left a batch of these equipment for Huang Gai. Huang Gai was waiting for a rainless night, allowing all his arson weapons to show their power.
Chapter completed!